08.27.08
We posted a few of Jethro Hayes’ shoes a while back and awarded him the “Official JoyEngine Yur Rad Award.” Well, Jethro found the post and sent along some more customs he did - they’re unbelievable! We’ll be sending out his “Fuck Microsoft” shirt later today. Thanks Jethro!
Tags: custom sneakers, Jethro Haynes
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08.27.08
WOW! Steve’s custom Groond is on its way from Brooklyn to the Soft & Furry™ headquarters. He sent us a sneak peak of his creation. Now, we’re just waiting eagerly for the mail man or woman to show up.
Tags: Soft & Furry, Steve Talkowski
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08.26.08
OBEY.
Tags: Obey Giant, shepard fairey
Category: Art
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08.25.08
The Manifest Hope Gallery opened to the press yesterday. The amount of amazing art is staggering and we HIGHLY recommend you get your butt down there. The show opened to the public today and will be running until Wed. The gallery unfortunately shuts down at 5pm so you’ll have to make it a day trip.
We’ve compiled a short preview of the show to get your ass motivated. Check it out!
Tags: DNC, Manifest Hope, Manifest Hope Gallery
Category: Art
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08.25.08
On Friday night Gallery 1988 opened the second annual “Crazy 4 Cult” show, hosted by infamous film director Kevin Smith. The show’s theme centers around a list of films affectionately known as cult classics, and features artists as varied as the films they represented. Some notable participants include Shepard Fairey, Jim Mahfood, Chet Zar, Plasticgod, Reuben Rude, Camilla D’Errico and Shannon Bonatakis. I did not have the pleasure of attending, but the show can be seen online in its entirety HERE.
Smith made sure to snatch up every single piece that featured his film alter ego Silent Bob, hopefully not to look at himself, but to support those artists that have supported his film career all these years… Yup, that’s what I’m going with. Love me some smodcast. Rumor has it that Weird Al will be hosting next year, look for UHF to dominate.
The following are some snippets of my favorite pieces from this show. Enjoy!
Tags: Crazy for Cult, gallery 1988, Jim Mahfood, Kevin Smith, reuben rude, shannon bonatakis, shepard fairey
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08.25.08
Getting our piece down to Andenken for the Manifest Hope Gallery exhibit, was quite possibly more difficult than designing and constructing it. Somehow, through a great deal of planning and much energy expended it arrived safely. The concept behind the piece was to present the first ten amendments, more commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights, in a new and contemporary manner. While it is a bit of a hulking monster, we really felt that provoking interactivity was the key to awakening a general lack of awareness. An awareness inherent to being American - knowing your rights. George Bush has systematically stripped our rights away. We’ve chosen to endorse Barack Obama as the man to keep them in check, restore what’s been lost and lead our nation into a new and prosperous future. We hope you like our concept. And, if you know, and enjoy your rights - Vote for Obama this coming November. Either way - stop by Manifest Hope and check out the unprecedented body of work created in honor of Mr. Obama.
Tags: andenken, Barack Obama, cypher13, Manifest Hope
Category: Art
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08.25.08
We just got some sneak peeks of Eighthourday’s custom DOO for the SOFT&FURRY™ show! We can’t wait to see it in person! Thanks Katie and Nate!
Tags: Eighthourday, SOFT&FURRY
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08.24.08
The winners are in… MoveOn members entered over 1,200 paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, and installations in the Manifest Hope contest in partnership with artist Shepard Fairey. You can view all the work of the finalists here. The winners were chosen by a panel of judges including, Shepard Fairey, Guggenheim contemporary art curator Nancy Spector, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art curator Cydney Payton, and recording artists Moby, DJ Spooky, and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. A number of the winning pieces are on display at the Manifest Hope gallery. If you’re in Denver, poke your head in there. The gallery is open from 10am - 5pm Monday through Thursday of this week.
“Stars and Stripes” by Phil Fung of Miami, FL
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Category: Art
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08.24.08
The dynamic duo that is Josh Holland and Shannon Bonatakis activated their collective creative energy to manifest their contribution to Denver’s Manifest Hope Gallery exhibition. These two can do no wrong when it comes to paint and brushes and the below piece, provoking a sense of both awe and discovery is a testament to their powers. Having been in and out of the gallery a great deal over the past week, and witnessing all sorts of all-star art activity, it’s been pretty amazing to see not only how well represented, but how high the level of execution is amongst our local Colorado contingent is. The force is strong with us.
Tags: Andeken, denver, josh holland, Manifest Hope, shannon bonatakis
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Nice collection of recent Ball Park hood, Denver street art coming together over at the Egotist. If you swing by the Manifest Hope show… keep your eyes peeled. There’s some gems, for sure.
Shepard Fairey and Manifest Hope hit the streets… Rad new stash of new pics over at Beauty And The Street!!!
For those in the twin cities, Poster Offensive 4 will be hitting the hood on Friday August 29th 2008 at the Black Dog Cafe just in time for the RNC convention. Be there. Expect to see great work from the likes of Aesthetic Apparatus, Eighthourday, Miss Amy Jo, and many more.
There’s all sorts of prep goin’ on at Andenken for the Manifest Hope Gallery exhibit. Stay up on the show over at Beauty and the Street.
Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, a pair of Bigfoot-hunting hobbyists from north Georgia, say they found the creature’s body in a wooded area and spotted several similar creatures that were still alive. More at cnn.com
Chris Huth for I am 8-Bit. Wow!
Anthem Heart presents Worn to Be Wild tonight at Vs. Social Standard. If your in MPLS get there tonight, after party at Triple Rock. Check the flyer for deets.
2009 Semi-Permanent Book Submissions are going on now. Deadline Nov. 30th.
DNC is almost here and we need to let the streets know what ‘change’ and ‘hope’ means to our culture! Come out this Friday 8-15-08 and express yourselves with some OG Mafiosos! Email The Magnet Mafia for more info:
workshop@magnetmafia.com
Are you “terror” - ified? Should you be? The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism thinks so… Check this shit out. It’s down right freaky.
Overflow: A Pleasure Trip
Graffiti artist, Eric Inkala showing at Fox Tax Gallery tomorrow night. Show starts at 6pm.
Researchers stumbled upon what they believe to be a community of roughly 125,000 Western Lowland Gorillas yesterday in the middle of the Republic of Congo. That’s more than twice the number prviously believed to be in existence. Awesome. More here.
Call for entries for Fl@33’s newest book titled Made and Sold. The Graphic designer’s Sidelines! They are looking for self-initiated and self-promo work, send your ish in and find out if you make the cut. Due date August 25th.
Today marks the last day of the SOFT&FURRY™ logo contest. If you’ve got one in the hopper, wrap it up and get it in!!!
We’re gonna be makin’ some mods to the site over the next week or so in an effort to make it a bit more user friendly… yadda… yadda.. Anyway, if it’s all eff’d up at any point - it won’t be for too long.
DJAGARTA in St. Petersburg, Russia just got his illustrations online. Yay!!!
Our pal PHU! in Singapore is gettin’ ready to rock out a custom S&F™ LOOFT. We couldn’t be more excited. Stop on by his site to keep up on his progess with all of his super custom projects.
Our friends at facevalue in San Diego just dropped their new online store. It’s dope. Shane and Vince have a great little boutique. If you’re lookin’ for seriously fresh, and super rare kicks, or just some new gear that noone else in your hood is gonna have… hop over and take a look. Nice work guys!!!
The Manifest Hope Gallery in Denver, CO will be come together at the Democratic National Convention (August 24th – August 28th, 2008. More info soon. This art show is gonna be rad!!! Stay tuned.
30 bears waiting to eat 7 geologists! Whaaat! That’s some horror movie shit.
Sketchbot is good.
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OBEY Denver.
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Zeus Jones Updates.
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